Games like Wayward
If Wayward is your kind of game, the closest matches are Don't Starve Together, Necesse and Rust — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its lofi soundtrack enhances immersion, atmospheric and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Wayward: You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
Players who liked Wayward also play
Steam players who put hours into Wayward also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Top pick for Wayward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Necesse
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wayward.
Second-strongest match for Wayward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Rust
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Wayward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Terminus: Zombie Survivors
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Wayward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?
Crea
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wayward.
Ranked #5 for Wayward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Progress with every slain monster, learn over 80 skills through talents, craft hundreds of items, and explore vast procedurally-generated worlds in this ever-expanding sandbox RPG!
CryoFall
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Wayward.
Ranked #6 for Wayward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Wayward.
Ranked #7 for Wayward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Soulash 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wayward.
Ranked #8 for Wayward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Soulash 2 is a sandbox RPG roguelike with a procedurally generated open world, simulated history, skill-based progression system, customizable abilities, material-based crafting, building, trading, and the possibility of total mayhem. Will you save your world or destroy it?
Reviewers mention these as similar to Wayward
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Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Wayward.
Reviewers of Wayward cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Caves of Qud
WHY THIS
Shares reputation system and an atmospheric mood with Wayward.
Reviewers of Wayward cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
Pixel Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Wayward.
Reviewers of Wayward cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Pixel Dungeon is an exciting and extremely popular roguelike (more than 2 million mobile installs!). Explore the depths of Pixel Dungeon, collect useful items and fight fierce monsters to find the Amulet of Yendor - the ultimate artefact of this game world!
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Wayward cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Wayward.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Minicraft Shooter
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Wayward cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Minicraft Shooter is an epic time killer shooter with a top view in which you face an endless crowd of zombies, in the scenery of a cyberpunk metropolis, a modern city and a green forest. and all this in a cubic style!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Wayward at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Wayward on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Wayward on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wayward.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Wayward on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Wayward on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under Wayward on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Wayward on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Wayward.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Wayward on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Wayward.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Wayward on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wayward.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wayward.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Wayward.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Necesse
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wayward.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Terminus: Zombie Survivors
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Wayward.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Soulash 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wayward.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wayward.
Soulash 2 is a sandbox RPG roguelike with a procedurally generated open world, simulated history, skill-based progression system, customizable abilities, material-based crafting, building, trading, and the possibility of total mayhem. Will you save your world or destroy it?
Frequently asked about Wayward
- Does Wayward run on Steam Deck?
- Wayward is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Wayward cost?
- Wayward is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Wayward have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Wayward supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Wayward?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Wayward are Don't Starve Together, Necesse, Rust.
- Who developed Wayward?
- Wayward was developed by Unlok.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Wayward.
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